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At Home has been able to place everyone approached so far. As of November, the program was fully subscribed, with 1,030 homeless people now in homes and a control group of 980 people.

"At any time, 70 to 80 per cent of the clients are doing really well," says Aseefa Sarang, executive director of Across Boundaries, a Toronto mental health organization that is heading up implementation of At Home in that city.

That's an astounding success rate for a problem that has been the bane of many a government policy.

Nationally, almost all of those 1,030 people have stayed housed, although about 30 per cent have switched to different homes along the way. Most of them have moved on to the next step, working with professionals to design a support system that will help them cope and teach them to live more independently in the long run, says Goering.

"It makes it easier for people if they're not surrounded by others who have the same problems," she says.

"It's a pioneering and risque approach that doesn't work for everyone....But in most cases, they are housing people, and they are staying housed."

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